Reprinted with permission from Birmingham Medical News (May 2023). There have been several recent governmental actions which highlight the balance between securing electronic patient information and ...

Electronic health information exchange among hospitals and physicians has been steadily increasing in recent years, but disparities remain among rural and small hospitals as they may not be able to ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) must take significant steps to enhance its HIPAA audit program to ensure stronger protection of electronic ...

The Health and Human Services Department is getting serious about taking on medical providers and organizations engaged in information blocking practices that limit access to electronic health record ...

In May 2023, the Florida Legislature amended the Florida Electronic Health Records Exchange Act to add a provision regarding the security and storage of patient information. It took effect on July 1, ...

This analysis of Medicare data examines the relationships between fragmented readmission, health information exchange, and repeat imaging in older adults with and without Alzheimer disease. Objectives ...

Epic Systems says 300,000 people’s digital health information records were accessed and sold from health records networks to ...

Since 2002, the privacy and security rules have required covered entities, including dental practices, to provide patients with their records upon request. Previously, the process of giving patients ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs is accelerating a systemwide rollout of its new electronic health records platform, with full deployment at all medical sites by 2031, according to the ...

In 2006, FDA launched what the agency refers to as a postmarket transformation initiative. Developed through FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), the initiative is designed to ...